The blackout is starting to have a financial impact on Reddit, but we must stay dark!
I deleted my Twitter account and haven't been back since blood diamond heir and purchaser, not founder, of Tesla Elon Musk bought it.
I'm done with reddit. I just hope the anti-capitalist subs regenerate here or I'll have to find another place to vent (again, not reddit) in that regard.
I’m just as happy here, for now. A community driven feed and a chance to interact with random people is enough to replace 95% of what I used Reddit for, and Twitter (which I was never really active in) and the alternatives that sprung up following the Musk cliff just don’t scratch that itch.
I’ve actually been expecting Reddit to die for a while and worried I wouldn’t find the Next Thing^TM until it was too late. I’ve gone through and deleted all my alts and their comments/posts, but will give spez another week before I purge my (almost 200k) main account. It would be nice if Lemmy got enough traction in my areas of interest to fully replace Reddit either way. I have some bad habits there I would be wise to leave behind anyway.
Reddit doesn't provide anything I can't get elsewhere. I don't know anyone there, I just reply to comments that pique my interest. Heck I delete my Reddit account every few years for privacy so even my account itself isn't precious. I'm just getting started here but it's hard to imagine Lemmy couldn't replace it entirely.
I nuked my 15 year 750k karma "main" recently because I ran afoul of a super mod who banned me from like 8 subs in one fell swoop because I talked shit on his favorite game or some dumb shit. IDGAF it's just the internet I'll burn my next one too if it feels appropriate (and I probably will now, I just want to find one of those comment scrambler things I've read about.)
@CannaVet @MagicShel Wow 750k ? How long you been on reddit? I been there 6 years and only got 350k
It was my first one, early on as a teen, I'm spitballing numbers because I deleted it but I had it probably like 15 years give or take a few.
@CannaVet Wow, Glad you are here now. lemmy, The Fedeverse gotta be the future.
I've been offloading various services to self hosting for a few years anyway, so moving to a decentralized social media is just a logical progression for me anyway haha. I primarily use a private email host and I have self hosted apps to replace Google Docs and the like along with music/media stuff.
@CannaVet Sweet!